Select Works From The Roohi & Rajiv Savara Family Collection: Pre-Modern And The Modern Indian Visual Arts

RAJA RAVI VARMA (1848 – 1906)

“Sita in Ashoka Grove” | Oil on Canvas | 40 in x 30 in (101 cms x 76 cms) | 1894
Signed and dated in English “Ravi Varma 1894” in the Lower Right Corner

Publication History:

  • Illustrated in Ravi Varma: The Indian Artist, published by the Indian Press, Allahabad, 1903, pages 4 and 5.
  • Illustrated in Ravi Varma Ke Parsidh Chitra (in Hindi language), by Shankar Narhar Joshi, Chitrashala Press, Pune in 1911, page 23.
  • Illustrated in Ramayana (in Bengali language), edited by Ramananda Chatterjee and translated by Krittibas published by Prabasi Press, 1946
  • Referenced in Essays in National Idealism, by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, 1905, page 78
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